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  • crimes against humanity...

    How many tragic...unfortunate incidents like this one...before people start wising up to the truth. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/us/30lima.html I wonder if the UN will ever speak up for the the opressed in our country. How many millions arrested, tortured, maimed, or murdered for being black, gay, poor, native american, ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by catnapping on January 9, 2009

  • Re: DoggyDevil's Racist Rantings...

    Like you, I disagree with Slate's editorial decision in this. I think predicto/doggydevil's posts should be brought down. I'm sure Slate can keep them hidden (rather than deleted) if they need to save the evidence. I think it's important to out racists...not just the overt types, like dd and laurie, with their enthusiastic use of racial ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by catnapping on December 29, 2008

  • Forgot about this thread...

    till someone knocked it back up to the top of my mbtu list.... ~~~~~~~ Warren not only compares homosexuality to the violent crimes of pedophilia and incest...he claims (even when asked specifically) that they are ''equivalent.'' WARREN: I'm opposed to redefinition of a 5,000 year definition of marriage. I'm opposed to having a brother and ...
    Posted to Best of the Fray by catnapping on December 27, 2008

  • BLACK GAY PEOPLE DO EXIST, YOU KNOW

    Black people as a community are not monolithic. Gay people as a community are not monolithic. Stating that Nov 4 was a ''good day for Black people'' but ''not for gay people'' ignores the reality of the intersection of these groups. Please stop perpetuating tired, trite, and ignorant ideas about minority communities you seemingly know nothing ...
    Posted to Human Nature by StreetScholar on November 14, 2008

  • Re: could someone please explain this

    My experience is that the word ''homophobia'' emerged as part of the identity politics movement of the 80s and 90s and carries with it, or at least used to, a definite sense of derision. Implicit in the idea of homophobia is that it was a fear that resulted from suppressing one's own desires. I think this original sense has shifted somewhat as the ...
    Posted to XX Factor by ophymirage on October 4, 2008

  • My Samoan Mother Does Not Need Affirmative Action

    An AA surgeon, who got into medical school with lower aptitude, grades, test scores and abilities, should operate on my Samoan mother, even though there are better-qualified physicians! Besides your Native grandmother makes you a bigger victim than me with a Mexican (Aztec) mother, so you need AA more. However, I am especially needy, because my ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Ralph7 on June 28, 2008